{"product_id":"snake-in-the-grass-9798989493425","title":"Snake in the Grass","description":"Everybody's mad at everybody on Capitol Hill. Members call each other names on the floor of the House of Representatives. A former Speaker elbows a fellow lawmaker. And anybody who dares to work with someone in the other political party is punished. Now somebody's putting snakes in lawmaker gym bags and trash cans. It's up to 10-year-old Fina Mendoza, the daughter of a congressman, to find the real snake in the grass.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Award-winning writer, public radio journalist, and TEDx speaker Kitty Felde hosts the \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Club for Kids\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e podcast. With more than 1.4 million downloads, the show has been named one of the top 10 kidcasts in the world by \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e of London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Kitty has a remarkable talent for talking to kids and she shared her super power in a TEDx UCLA talk. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The native Angeleno created the Washington bureau for Southern California Public Radio, reporting on Congress. She's covered everything from war crimes trials to OJ Simpson to baseball, and hosted a daily talk show in Los Angeles for nearly a decade. Kitty had a front row seat at one of the January 6th Committee hearings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e She won the Los Angeles Radio \u003ci\u003eJournalist of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e award three times in three years from the Society of Professional Journalists and the L.A. Press Club. As a journalist, Kitty explained how government works to grownups. Now she explains it to kids in a series of mystery novels and podcasts called \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fina Mendoza Mysteries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. She also writes the companion blog \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFacts Behind the Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, available on the Chesapeake Press website (www.chesapeakepress.org). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Find Kitty at www.kittyfelde.com and @kittyfelde. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Chesapeake Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181491257618,"sku":"9798989493425","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_054f0dda-8c25-4a0b-b2a1-5f292961f1d1.jpg?v=1744397011","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/snake-in-the-grass-9798989493425","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}